"Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum from the Broadway play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, which was based on their experiences as prisoners in Stalag 17B in Austria. Produced and directed by Wilder, it starred William Holden in his Oscar-winning role, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Neville Brand, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves, Sig"
"won the Best Actor Oscar for ""From Here to Eternity"" instead of him. It is said that he felt he was given the award as consolation for not having previously won it for ""Sunset Boulevard"". In addition, Wilder was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, and Strauss for Best Supporting Actor. Stalag 17 Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy"
"site's consensus stating: """"Stalag 17"" survives the jump from stage to screen with flying colors, thanks to Billy Wilder's typically sterling direction and a darkly funny script."" Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His acceptance speech is one of the shortest on record (""thank you""); the TV broadcast had a strict cutoff time which forced Holden's quick remarks. The frustrated Holden personally paid for advertisements in the Hollywood trade publications to thank everyone he wanted to on Oscar night. He also remarked that he felt that either Burt Lancaster or Montgomery Clift should have"
"William Holden William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film ""Stalag 17"" (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film ""The Blue Knight"" (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including ""Sunset Boulevard"", ""Sabrina"", ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"", ""The Wild Bunch"", ""Picnic"" and ""Network"". He was"
"Robert Strauss (actor) Robert Strauss (November 8, 1913 – February 20, 1975) was an American actor. He became most familiar in Hollywood films of the 1950s such as ""Stalag 17"" (1953), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Strauss began his career as a classical actor, appearing in ""The Tempest"" and ""Macbeth"" on Broadway in 1930. Comedy became his speciality, and he was known best as ""Stalag 17's"" Stanislas ""Animal"" Kuzawa, a role he created in the original 1951 Broadway production and reprised in the 1953 film adaptation, for which he was nominated for"
"base just prior to the Pearl Harbor attack and World War II, illustrating the conflict between an individualistic private (Montgomery Clift) and rigid institutional authority (exemplified by the Army). Its achievement of eight awards matched the then record held by ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939). The record would be tied again the following year by ""On the Waterfront"" (1954). Walt Disney won four awards, which remains the record for the most Oscars won in the same year. William Holden's speech for Best Actor for his role in ""Stalag 17"" was simply ""Thank You"", making it one of the shortest speeches"
"in the big screen adaptation of ""Born Yesterday"" (1950). He made two more films with Olson: ""Force of Arms"" (1951) at Warners and ""Submarine Command"" (1951) at Paramount. Holden did a sports film at Paramount, ""Boots Malone"" (1952) then stayed at the same studio for ""The Turning Point"" (1952). Holden was reunited with Wilder in ""Stalag 17"" (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom. He made a sex comedy with David Niven for Otto Preminger, ""The Moon Is Blue"" (1953), which was a huge hit, in part"
"by Alec Guinness in an Oscar-winning performance. The ""definitive"" Oscar-winning prisoner of war film was Billy Wilder's ""Stalag 17"" (1953), while the brief but powerful prison camp scenes of ""The Deer Hunter"" (1977) lend an air of tragedy to the whole of that film. Charlie Chaplin's ""Shoulder Arms"" (1918) set a style for war films to come, and was the first comedy about war in film history. British cinema in the Second World War marked the evacuation of children from London with social comedies such as ""Those Kids from Town"" (1942) where the evacuees go to stay with an earl"
"category (score, substantially original). Best Sound Effects was introduced this year with ""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"" winning the award. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. Sidney Poitier's performance in ""Lilies of the Field"" as Homer Smith earned him an award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. This marked the first time a Black male won a competitive Oscar (Poitier is Bahamian-American). This win came five years after his nomination for Best Actor in the 1958's ""The Defiant Ones"". Another African-American male would not"
"Schell won the award for Best Actor, and Abby Mann won in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. The remaining nominations were for Best Picture, Stanley Kramer for Best Director, Spencer Tracy for Best Actor, Montgomery Clift for Best Supporting Actor, Judy Garland for Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, and Best Film Editing. Stanley Kramer was given the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. This is one of the few times that a film had multiple entries in the same category (Tracy and Schell for Best Actor). Many of the big"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"who had seen him perform in college plays. Lembeck was Jewish. Two weeks after graduation, Lembeck won the role of Sam Insigna in ""Mister Roberts"", which he played on Broadway for nearly three years. Lembeck made three movies for 20th Century Fox, ""You're in the Navy Now"", ""Fourteen Hours"", and ""The Frogmen"", all released in the first half of 1951. He went back to Broadway as Sgt. Harry Shapiro in ""Stalag 17"", subsequently playing the same role in the film version directed by Billy Wilder, earning the Theater Owners of America's Laurel Award for outstanding comedy performance and best possibility"
"Old Men)<br> - Ermanno Olmi (Centochiodi)<br> - Sean Penn (Into the Wild)<br> - Ridley Scott (American Gangster)<br> <br> Best actor in leading role<br> - George Clooney (Michael Clayton)<br> - Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)<br> - Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild)<br> - Viggo Mortensen (La promessa dell'assassino)<br> - Denzel Washington (American Gangster)<br> <br> Best actress in leading role<br> - Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth - The Golden Age)<br> - Julie Christie (Lontano da lei)<br> - Marion Cotillard (La vie en rose)<br> - Keira Knightley (Espiazione)<br> - Meryl Streep (Leoni per agnelli)<br> <br> Best original screenplay<br> - Caramel<br> - Centochiodi<br> - Io non"
"characterised by his bleached blonde hair. Götz Otto Götz Otto (born 15 October 1967) is a German film and television actor who is perhaps best known internationally for his roles as henchman Richard Stamper in the 1997 James Bond film ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", and as Nazi commander Klaus Adler in the 2012 comic science fiction film ""Iron Sky"". Otto was born in Dietzenbach and his parents ran a bakery in the city. He played Mr. Stamper, the villain Elliot Carver's assistant, in the 1997 James Bond film ""Tomorrow Never Dies"". When called for casting, Otto was given twenty seconds to"
"Stephen Fry for the tenth time in the award's history. The ceremony opened with a number ""Stevie"" by a British rock band Kasabian. ""Boyhood"" won three of its five nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Richard Linklater, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Patricia Arquette. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor in a Leading Role for ""The Theory of Everything"", Julianne Moore won Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""Still Alice"", and J. K. Simmons won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Whiplash"". ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" won five of its eleven nominations, the most of"
"its almost jolly account of chaos, corruption, and defeat"". Among the actors, he commented particularly on William Holden: ""After years of giving bored performances in boring movies, Holden comes back gallantly in ""The Wild Bunch"". He looks older and tired, but he has style, both as a man and as a movie character who persists in doing what he's always done, not because he really wants the money but because there's simply nothing else to do."" ""Time"" also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since ""Stalag 17"" (a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar); said Robert Ryan"
"win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Sean Penn became the ninth person to win Best Lead Actor twice. Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger became the second performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar. The first actor to receive this distinction was Peter Finch who posthumously won Best Actor for ""Network"" two months after his death in January 1977. With its six nominations, ""WALL-E"" tied with 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" as the most nominated animated film in Oscar history. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received"
"""' ""The Danny Kaye Show"" 21st Golden Globe Awards The 21st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963 films, were held on March 11, 1964. ""' Sidney Poitier - ""Lilies of the Field"" ""' Alberto Sordi - ""The Devil (Il diavolo)"" ""' Leslie Caron - ""The L-Shaped Room"" ""' Shirley MacLaine - ""Irma la Douce"" ""' Elia Kazan - ""America, America"" ""' ""The Cardinal"" ""' ""Tom Jones"" ""' John Huston - ""The Cardinal"" ""' Margaret Rutherford - ""The V.I.P.s"" ""' Mickey Rooney - ""Mickey"" ""' Inger Stevens - ""The Farmer's Daughter"" ""' ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"""
"interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son. Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in ""Conquest"" (1937), ""Algiers"" (1938), ""Gaslight"" (1944) and ""Fanny"" (1961), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance. He is particularly well known for ""Gaslight"" in which he played a thief/murderer who tries to convince his newlywed wife that she is going insane. He was nominated for the Golden Globe as Best Actor for the 1952 film ""The Happy Time""; and also nominated for the"
"Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Traffic"", and Julie Walters won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ""Billy Elliot"". Jamie Bell – ""Billy Elliot"" Julia Roberts – ""Erin Brockovich"" Gladiator Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) Ang Lee – ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"" Gladiator Gladiator Billy Elliot Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" – Rick Baker and Gail Rowell-Ryan ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"" – Tan Dun Gladiator ""Traffic"" – Stephen Gaghan ""Almost Famous"" – Cameron Crowe Almost Famous Benicio del Toro –"
"Neville Brand Lawrence Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American actor. His most memorable film roles were in ""Stalag 17"" (1953), ""Riot in Cell Block 11"" (1954), and ""Birdman of Alcatraz"" (1962). Brand was also a highly decorated World War II combat soldier. Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa, one of seven children of Leo Thomas Brand (June 24, 1892 – April 18, 1985) and the former Helen Louise Davis (August 4, 1900 – October 23, 1991). His father had worked as an electrician and bridge-building ironworker in Detroit. Neville was raised in Kewanee,"
"Other nominees: Winner: David Foster, ""Chicago 17"" by Chicago Other nominees: Winner: Hayward Parrott, ""Underworld"" by The Front Other nominees: Winner: Wilf Carter Winner: A. Hugh Joseph Winner: ""Reckless"", Bryan Adams Other nominees: Winner: Rob MacIntyre and Dimo Safari, ""Strange Animal"" by Gowan Other nominees: Winner: ""Murmel Murmel Munsch"", Robert Munsch Other nominees: Winner: ""W.A. Mozart-String Quartets"", The Orford String Quartet Other nominees: Winner: """", l'Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit conductor Other nominees: Winner: ""Born in the U.S.A."", Bruce Springsteen Other nominees: Winner: ""A Beautiful Friendship"", Don Thompson Other nominees: Winner: ""Never Surrender"", Corey Hart Other nominees: Winner: ""I"
"Milly Coury. John has been married to his current wife Karen Huston Ericson over 40 years. John Ericson John Ericson (sometimes spelled Erickson; born Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes; September 25, 1926) is a German-American film and television actor. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany as Joachim Alexander Ottokar Meibes. His parents, Carl (a chemist) and Ellen left Germany, reportedly to escape the rising Nazi regime, to the United States. Ericson trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and played the lead role in ""Stalag 17"" by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski on Broadway in 1951. He made a"
"21st Golden Globe Awards The 21st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963 films, were held on March 11, 1964. ""' Sidney Poitier - ""Lilies of the Field"" ""' Alberto Sordi - ""The Devil (Il diavolo)"" ""' Leslie Caron - ""The L-Shaped Room"" ""' Shirley MacLaine - ""Irma la Douce"" ""' Elia Kazan - ""America, America"" ""' ""The Cardinal"" ""' ""Tom Jones"" ""' John Huston - ""The Cardinal"" ""' Margaret Rutherford - ""The V.I.P.s"" ""' Mickey Rooney - ""Mickey"" ""' Inger Stevens - ""The Farmer's Daughter"" ""' ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" ""' ""The Richard Boone Show"""
"is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year. Since its inception, the award has been given to 80 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, Gary Oldman is the most recent winner in this category for portraying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"". In the following table, the years are"
"won five Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional seven, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director for Ridley Scott. It was the first movie to win Best Picture without winning either a directing or screenwriting award since ""All the King's Men"" at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1950. In 2003, ""Chicago"" became another Best Picture winner which didn't win an Academy Award in either of these two major categories. Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the"
"24th Academy Awards The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to ""An American in Paris"", which, like ""A Place in the Sun"", received six Academy Awards. ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" won four Oscars, including three of the acting awards. The film's only unsuccessful acting nomination was that of Marlon Brando, whose performance as Stanley Kowalski was later considered one of the most influential of modern film acting. Humphrey Bogart was the last man born in the 19th century to win"
"history of the Academy Awards, behind William Wyler, and the second most nominated screenwriter, behind Woody Allen. Wilder won a total of six Oscars: Best Director for ""The Lost Weekend"" and ""The Apartment"", Best Screenplay for ""The Lost Weekend"", ""Sunset Boulevard"", and ""The Apartment"", and Best Picture for ""The Apartment"". In addition, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1988. Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (; ; born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most"
"57th Academy Awards The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Jack Lemmon presided over the ceremonies. The big winner at the ceremony was Miloš Forman's ""Amadeus"", which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. As of the 90th Academy Awards, ""Amadeus"" is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations. The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his"
"Inn of the Sixth Happiness"" ""Do Aankhen Barah Haath"" Rock Hudson Deborah Kerr The Ann Sothern Show Letter to Loretta The Red Skelton Show Toast of the Town Tonight! Bradford Dillman John Gavin Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Linda Cristal Susan Kohner Tina Louise Red Skelton David Ladd ""(For best juvenile actor)"" Shirley MacLaine ""(For most versatile actress)"" Maurice Chevalier 16th Golden Globe Awards The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959. ""' David Niven – ""Separate Tables"" ""' Danny Kaye – ""Me and the Colonel"" ""' Susan Hayward – ""I"
"in the remarkable impact of the libel case court sequence. James Mason never provides the strength and bitter logic necessary for the dramatic cut-and-thrust when Wilde is in the witness box."" The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. Peter Finch won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the film also received four other BAFTA nominations including Best British Film, Best Film from any source and for John Fraser as Best British Actor. Peter Finch (tied with Bambang Hermanto) also received the Best Actor Award at the 2nd Moscow International Film"
"27th Academy Awards The 27th Academy Awards honored the best films released in 1954. The Best Picture winner, ""On the Waterfront"", was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Elia Kazan. It had twelve nominations and eight wins, matching two other films, ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939) and ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953), though those each had thirteen nominations. ""On the Waterfront"" was the third film to receive five acting nominations, and the first to receive three in the Best Supporting Actor category. A ""rematch"" occurred in the category of Best Actor between Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart following Bogart's"
"and on TV. I suspect it finally made more money than any other picture I made."" Intrada Records released an album featuring a 1995 re-recording of the film's score. The re-recording was performed by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Bruce Broughton. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture. Brando's nomination was his third consecutive for Best Actor, following 1951's"